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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from NT boot manager?
Date: 20 Oct 1996 14:46:16 GMT
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Jim King <jim@ase.telerate.com> wrote:

> Yep.  Use dd(1) under FreeBSD to write the boot sector of your FreeBSD
> partition to a file (sorry, I can't remember the details on how to do
> this).

dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=boot.sec count=1  (SCSI disk)
dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=boot.sec count=1  (IDE disk)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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